Summary of BISON Development Activities: NEAMS FY14 Report

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1236823· OSTI ID:1236823

Williamson, R. L. ^[1]; Novascone, S. R. ^[1]; Hales, J. D. ^[1]; Spencer, B. W. ^[1]; Liu, W. ^[2]; Pastore, G. ^[1]; Perez, D. M. ^[1]; Gardner, R. J. ^[1]; Stafford, D. S. ^[1]; Gamble, K. A. ^[1]

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1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Anatech, Inc.

This summary report contains an overview of work performed under the work package entitled “FY2014 NEAMS INL-Engineering Scale Fuel Performance & Interface with RPL Tools.” A first chapter identifies the specific FY-14 milestones, providing a basic description of the associated work and references to related detailed documentation. Where applicable, a representative technical result is provided. A second chapter summarizes substantial additional work including 1) efforts to improve numerical convergence and contact in BISON, 2) development of capability to simulate hydrogen behavior in Zircaloy cladding and 3) efforts to enhance collaborative work with the Halden Research Program. A final chapter briefly outlines planned future work.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 1236823
• Report Number(s): INL/EXT--14-33252
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
B CODES
Bison
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONVERGENCE
DIFFUSION
HYDROGEN
IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY
NEAMS
NUCLEAR FUELS
PERFORMANCE
PRECIPITATION
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS
ZIRCALOY